ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When Whitman used ____, he did not have a pattern of end rhyme, regular meter, or regular stanza length in his poems.
A
slant rhyme
B
personification
C
free verse
D
parallelism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern.

Detailed explanation-2: -End rhyme does not require that two subsequent lines rhyme with each other. Rather, it just requires that rhymes occur in some pattern in the last word of some number of lines of poetry. A poem that alternates rhymes in the last word of every other line is still using end-rhyme.

Detailed explanation-3: -A free verse poem, also known as a vers libre, is a poem that lacks all of the above. It has no defined meter, no consistent rhyme scheme, and no specified length or formal requirements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rhythm scheme is the poet’s deliberate placement of line patterns in a poem to rhyme with other lines of a stanza or whole poem. It can be identified by noticing the end words of each line that rhyme with each other perfectly making a meaning. Here the rhythm pattern is AABA.

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